Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. "In general, it's become clear the Antarctic ice sheet is thicker than we originally realized," said Peter Fretwell of the British ...

"The more we know about Earth's icy environments, the better we will be able to understand the other environments," said ...

The British Antarctic Survey have released the most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice sheet ...

The most detailed map yet of the landscape ... along the Antarctic Peninsula and West Antarctic coastlines, and in the Transantarctic Mountains. The outline of deep valleys is better represented.

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than 60 years' worth of data from satellites, ships and dog-drawn sleds.

Have you ever wondered what Antarctica might look like without ice ... ships and even dog-drawn sleds. The outline of deep valleys is better represented in the new map, the BAS said. So too are those ...